The 1895 comedy has been staged with age-blind and all-male casts and even David Suchet as Lady Bracknell. Now reinvented again, at the National Theatre, the trick is to be seriously funny I can't think of many plays that have left such a strong footprint as The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's comedy has been parodied, pastiched and plundered by, among others, Tom Stoppard, Alan Bennett and Joe Orton. It has bee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM on November 7, 2024